Shaker Heights, OH
Shaker Heights, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Shaker Heights at the 19th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 10,623 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Shaker Heights at the 21st percentile, close to its 19th-percentile risk score.
Shaker Heights's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 95% of Shaker Heights's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 5% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 10,623 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Shaker Heights compares
Shaker Heights's 49th-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 19th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Shaker Heights ranks 25,665 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,503 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 650 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shaker Heights and the insurance market
At the 19th national percentile, Shaker Heights rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Shaker Heights's 95% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Shaker Heights's 19th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Shaker Heights, see the exposure-zones guide.